Score-based tests of measurement invariance: Use in practice

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Ting ^a   Merkle, Edgar C ^a   Zeileis, Achim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Lavaan; Measurement invariance; Ordinal variable; Parameter stability; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904501146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00438     Document Type: Article

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